CHILD RULER FOR TIBET
CHOICE BY LOT SOON CHENG KINO. Fob. 26.—1 t is officially announced that the choosing of the fourteenth icincarnation oi the. Dalai' Lama will occur at Lhasa uert summer. Since the la.st Dalai Lama died in 1033 religious leaders have been seeking his successor. The chosen child must have been * horn at the exact hour of the preceding Dalai Lama's death. Three babies have been found who conform to this and other signs, indir f eating possible reincarnation. The find--, al choice will be made by lot.- ' The Dalai Lama, who is always chosen when a child, is nominally supreme both in civil and religious affairs. \ ' •
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 157, 13 March 1939, Page 4
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110CHILD RULER FOR TIBET Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 157, 13 March 1939, Page 4
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